There was recently an article in The Guardian entitled \u201cPride and Prejudice? The Americans Who Fly the Confederate Flag\u201d that is worthy of attention. As much as I loathe the Cotton Kingdom\u2019s Confederacy, that evil cause for which I was fool enough to sacrifice my life, some champions of its flag (well, the flag everyone has come to think of as the Confederate flag!) make points that should not be dismissed. Although some of them just spout all the usual silly nonsense about the war being fought on behalf of state\u2019s rights rather than slavery (yeah, sure\u2014what a coincidence that the first states to secede and join the Confederacy were the five states dominated by King Cotton and its need for slave labor), as one woman was quoted as saying, \u201cIt was poor white Southerners who fought in those battles, being strung along by rich, property-owning whites who banked on the ignorance and arrogance of poor whites to fight and die in the war. They gave their lives, but for what?\u201d You go, mama, I couldn\u2019t have said it better myself!<\/p>\n
Having served as an officer in an army in which the saying \u201ca rich man\u2019s war and a poor man\u2019s fight\u201d was commonplace, in good conscience I can\u2019t ignore this issue. Throughout history wars have been fought by the lower classes for the betterment of the upper classes, but the Confederacy\u2014with poor dirt farmers fighting and dying on behalf of the economic interests of the Cotton Kingdom\u2014was unquestionably an extreme example. I don\u2019t know if people should be forgiven for their ignorance and arrogance, but I forgive a lot of these people for defending their ancestors\u2014even if I myself wish the flag and every other vestige of the Cotton Kingdom would be cleansed from the earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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